Notices by FozzTexx (fozztexx@mastodon.fozztexx.com)

Prototype of #TRS80 CoCo #FujiNet which uses the cartridge bus –and not the CoCo RS232 serial port– booting up the FujiNet CONFIG program. Shows the splash and goes into the menu! The prototype board uses a PicoROM wired direct to the bus, all IO is sent out over the USB port. This is the same technique currently being used by the MSX FujiNet prototype too.

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Got it back together. I guess I should clean the key caps while I have them off. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Do you eat your keycap soup with a spoon or chopsticks? #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

All I managed to do was make it a whole lot worse. Now most of the keys don't work.😔 #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Oh, and the spacebar jams down now too. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Well, it's not completely dead. Though I had a heart attack that I killed the 5150 because the screen was all white before realizing I knocked the CGA cable loose. With the bare PCB connected there's no keys stuck and I can type by poking the pads with my finger. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Another complete disassembly and re-assembly and no stuck keys, all the keys I tested work, and the spacebar doesn't jam in place. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Fun. I think my Model F keyboard got dropped and now some keys don't work, some keys act like they are being pressed when they aren't, and some keys type other keys. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Managed to get it apart. This might have been a bad idea. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

What have I gotten myself into. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

@thomasfuchs you were supposed to reserve the color 27" TV on a cart and have it wheeled into your conference room before you got there so you could connect the composite output to it.

Those of you that used to use your computer hooked up to your living room TV, what did you keep the computer on? The floor? A TV tray? Coffee table? A rolling cart? A bizarre table/shelf that must have been made from the walls of your great-great-grandma's house? Maybe the TV was on a cart so you could move the TV to watch instead of moving the computer?

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Making vinyl stickers as one does when they’re hoping to bribe someone. What will it be? #maker

Second color #maker

Doing multiple colors is always a challenge. Luckily I have a light table that came from my grandma. #maker

Every single one of these little pieces wants to go with the backing instead of stick to the transfer tape. #maker

Getting the backing to come off and not pull the pieces with it is always the hardest part. #maker

@thomasfuchs could be…

@nocontexttrek @rasterweb Last episode of TAS that I watched had a character who had "used his vast personal fortune" to do great good. I kept yelling at the TV “fortuine? There's no money!”

New #Insentricity post: Getting #Linux to boot on a Toshiba T5200, a 386 luggable with only 4MB of RAM. Linux doesn’t love being this RAM-starved, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done. The biggest challenge? Compatibility: LOADLIN’s supposed bzImage support and getting Linux to work with my impossibly large (for the period) hard drive.

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